Hahaha sell our product for us for no compensation!
I sense these AI companies getting desperate. Could it be that the public seem to hate AI? Could it be that they are making huge losses?
I'm being an anti champion, pushing back on my managers bullshit claims that AI can do everything, and my message is getting through to my coworkers. More and more doubt about the message they are getting from leadership is creeping in.
Don't let idiots in leadership who are just building their resume as an "AI manager" convince you your hard earned skills are useless now. Your skills are worth so much! Don't let them atrophy!
> Hahaha sell our product for us for no compensation!
It’s a pretty good tactic given there’s been an army of loons consistently claiming “AGI next year” since GPT-3 and white knighting these companies so readily available.
My team are just vibe coding now and code review is non existent. Just hit approve. Why should anyone waste their time and brain cells reviewing a massive pile of slop. If management want us to go all in on AI then we will. Full trust in its output. I'm genuinely looking forward to the first major corporate disaster to happen because no one really pays attention to what code changes are being committed. When everything starts collapsing sell popcorn?
What is coding for the sake of coding? I don't think anyone does that. Its about solving puzzles, using your brain, learning by doing, creating things- none of that happens when you use llm coding tools. Instead all you're doing is creating more cheap mediocre throwaway crap just because you can.
> What is coding for the sake of coding? I don't think anyone does that. Its about solving puzzles, using your brain, learning by doing, creating things- none of that happens when you use llm coding tools.
Why do you think that? I do regular ol' coding at my day job and have been vibe coding some side projects. They both require using my brain and both require my input for something to be created. They are different, though.
> Instead all you're doing is creating more cheap mediocre throwaway crap just because you can.
It probably is these things but since I'm just building stuff for myself, it hardly matters.
I've written a lot of code and a lot of that has been doing roughly the same thing. It's not a mental challenge; it's a chore. Sometimes it is really gratifying to code and try to figure stuff out. Often times it is not. So when it comes to building something in my free time, I'd prefer to avoid that sort of mental friction and banal tasks just to start working on the actual problem. More so than that, I'm building tools for myself to make my life easier so I can spend it more on something else.
I ride an electric bike with pedal assist. Does that mean I'm not really bicycling? Some might say yes and that it defeats the point. To me it ensures that I pick the bicycle more because it reduces friction to do so. I know that if I encounter a hill that the pedal assist will help me up it and thus I use it more and the net benefit outweighs the downsides. I think it's the same thing here.
I don't take pride in the work that an LLM does for me but I will happily benefit from it. It's a tool.
Bicycle is a surprisingly good analogy. If you cycle for the exercise or the challenge, an ebike sucks. If you cycle to get from point A to point B and be healthier than a car, it's great.
And just like with bikes, people who take pride in doing things the hard way can continue to do so. And they shouldn't belittle people who choose to use assistance.
What is the skill that needs to be learned? I've been forced to vibe code everything at work, there's no skill required to ask Claude code to do something.
I think there's a difference in using claude code at work to resolve issues or user stories which are patching existing software and already define what is trying to be solved and what the acceptance criteria is versus using claude code to build something from scratch, where you are acting as an architect.
It leaves more room for skill expression when you're making architectural decisions, defining scope, and designing the application.
I've found that adapting my thinking to how LLMs work best is a real friction point. If you're not doing that, it spits out junk. Your job just has low standards, get used to it.
Yes, realizing the fact that most jobs have low standards, and adapting to LLMs being good enough for these low standards is certainly a friction point. Giving up caring is hard.
You'd have to factor in what percentage of people don't understand that if everyone picks red they all live. What percentage of people think that amount is more than zero, then what percentage of those people are willing to take the risk to save those people. Then what percentage of people are willing to take the risk to save the people that took the risk. And so on. Then if you care enough to take the risk yourself.
Why would you risk killing anyone? To save yourself; while knowing that your decision doesn't preclude any/everyone from saving themselves, and no one dying. Maybe you'd be the only person that chooses blue if it was a real scenario and each voters life was really on the line. Everyone saves themselves and everyone lives. Not saying it's the right or wrong choice.
All these billions being thrown around weekly and yet people still living in poverty with no access to healthcare, and that's just America. It's truly shameful. Which techbro is gonna tell me those poor people just didn't work hard enough?
And for what? Chatbots no one wants? The ability to produce more mediocre products faster, products that no one needs? It's disgusting. We're headed for a weyland-yutani future not a star trek future.
I sense these AI companies getting desperate. Could it be that the public seem to hate AI? Could it be that they are making huge losses?
I'm being an anti champion, pushing back on my managers bullshit claims that AI can do everything, and my message is getting through to my coworkers. More and more doubt about the message they are getting from leadership is creeping in.
Don't let idiots in leadership who are just building their resume as an "AI manager" convince you your hard earned skills are useless now. Your skills are worth so much! Don't let them atrophy!
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